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Ballot 2025: Questions for HEC Members

We'd like to know why HEC members voted as they did. UCU Commons members not on UCU’s Higher Education Committee (HEC) have quite a few questions we’d like to ask those HEC members who voted for a UK-wide ballot on industrial action last week. Below are

Interim Statement from HEC Members on the 12th December HEC Decision

This is an interim statement by UCU Commons HEC members in response to HEC’s decision on 12th December to call an industrial action ballot for spring 2025. This decision to call an IA ballot amounts, in our view, to a fundamental misuse of member energy, time, commitment and goodwill

Report from NEC meeting: 15th November 2024

Headlines: * NEC votes down UCU’s List of Priorities for 2024/25 * NEC votes for hybrid congress - but only just * Bad behaviour in meetings no longer tolerated - thanks to excellent chairing * NEC votes for a review of survey of members’ experiences of racism - finally UCU NEC’s

UCU Commons HEC report, 27 September 2024

By UCU Commons NEC members Headlines: – HEC to consult members on pay and pay-related offers, with recommendation; – HEC rejects call to research high levels of member disengagement; – A special HEC to be convened to discuss strategy before Christmas. HEC met for the first time after the summer recess on 27

Universities, Solidarity, and International Boycotts.

Part I: Apartheid and the Boycott of South African Universities By Dion Georgiou Introduction This is the first in a series of blogs about international movements to boycott the universities of nation states culpable of gross oppression of people within or beyond their borders, as part of a wider coordinated

UCU Commons TUC report

Photo: Hussam Zomlot, Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, speaking at TUC. Image: TUC This year, UCU Commons member and NEC women’s rep Jo Edge was part of UCU’s delegation to the Trade Union Congress (TUC), and here shares some information and reflections on the three-day event held in

UCU Equality Conference 2024: a guide to registration and nomination

At UCU Commons, we want to broaden participation in all of the union’s democratic structures. This includes the equality conferences and the equality standing committees. The calling notice for this was published a few weeks ago, so we thought we’d write an accessible explainer of how this bit

British Trade Unions Oppose the Cass Report. Here’s Why That Matters.

By Matilda Fitzmaurice On the last Thursday and Friday in June, the TUC LGBT+ conference took place at the magnificent Congress House in London. This 2-day event, which brings together LGBTQIA+ members from the unions affiliated to the TUC, was attended by a large UCU delegation. Many important motions were